Replant disease of apple is common to all major apple growing regions of the world.
Difficulties in defining disease etiology, which can be exacerbated by abiotic factors, have …

Potato crop is the fourth main food crop in the world and it will certainly feed a big part of the
global population in the next years. The economical outlets for this crop are great; however …

Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) involves the use of large array of soil
bacteria to improve yield, plant growth and sustainable food production. As free living and …

Background: The role of fungi in cocoa crops is mainly associated with plant diseases and
contamination of harvest with unwanted metabolites such as mycotoxins that can reach the …

Over the years, many bacterial isolates have been evaluated as potential biocontrol agents
against soilborne fungal phytopathogens. However, few of them were ultimately successful …

A review of phylogenetic studies carried out together with morphological ones shows that a
major problem with most early studies is that they concentrated on techniques and used …

Cacao (Theobroma cacao), one of the most important tropical crops, is responsible for a
multibillion-dollar confectionary trade. It originated in the neotropics, but most production …

Theobroma cacao, cacao, is an ancient, neotropical domesticate. It is now grown throughout
the humid, lowland tropics and is the basis of a multibillion dollar confectionary trade …

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) involves the utilization of large array of soil
bacteria to improve yield and plant growth. As free living and symbiotic rhizobacteria, PGPR …

This is a continuation of a series focused on providing a stable platform for the taxonomy of
phytopathogenic fungi and organisms. This paper focuses on 25 phytopathogenic genera …